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bomber

noun

A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.

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What got me onto this theory was reading that the shoe bomber, a Muslim convert named Richard Reid, had been described by someone who knew him well in England as 'very, very impressionable.' I had already decided that the man was a complete bozo.

In the audience was the "candy bomber" Gail Halvorsen, now 92, who, as an American airforce pilot, dropped sweets to children during the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, which kept the city's population alive during the Soviet blockade and which became the strongest symbol of US-German friendship.

While Crawley has a proportionately much smaller Muslim population than others on the list, the West Sussex town was in the spotlight last year as the home of the first British jihadi suicide bomber of the Syrian civil war, and of three men jailed in 2007 for a bomb plot investigated by police under Operation Crevice.

His first office in October 1945 was a coal-hole among the wreckage left by a German bomber.

Alban Maginness, the SDLP candidate, narrowly beat the former IRA bomber Gerry Kelly into second place in the assembly elections.

In 2009 he took part in negotiations over the controversial return home of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasset al-Megrahi.

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Employees at East Kilbride engineering yard in Scotland refused to fix bomber-plane engines destined for Chile, forcing Rolls Royce to break its contract with the Chilean air force.

The militants at one stage made 22 hostages huddle round a suicide-bomber.

ISRAELIS and Palestinians were barely speaking to each other this week, after Israel began work on a new settlement in East Jerusalem, and a Hamas suicide-bomber on March 21st left three Israeli women dead and dozens of people injured in a Tel Aviv cafe.

Unlike the offensive in Malakand, in which over 200,000 of the 2m displaced people were allowed sanctuary in refugee camps, this operation provides no shelter for Mehsud fugitives.For security reasons, the United Nations, which lost five staff when a suicide-bomber attacked an office of the World Food Programme in Islamabad on October 5th, is also absent.

Another teenage suicide-bomber killed 45 people on October 12th in NWFP's Malakand region, which the army captured from another Taliban gang in May.

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